Allied Leaders Of World War II
The ALLIED LEADERS OF WORLD WAR II listed below comprise the
important political and military figures who fought for or supported
the Allies during
World War IIWorld War II . Engaged in total war, they had to
adapt to new types of modern warfare , on the military , psychological
and economic fronts
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Hirohito
HIROHITO (裕仁, April 29, 1901 – January 7, 1989) was the 124th
Emperor of JapanEmperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession ,
reigning from December 25, 1926, until his death. He was succeeded by
his eldest son,
AkihitoAkihito . In Japan, he is now referred to primarily by
his posthumous name , EMPEROR SHōWA (昭和天皇, Shōwa-tennō).
The word Shōwa is the name of the era that corresponded with the
Emperor's reign, and was made the Emperor's own name upon his death.
The name
HirohitoHirohito means "abundant benevolence". At the start of his reign, Japan was already one of the great powers
—the ninth-largest economy in the world , the third-largest naval
power , and one of the four permanent members of the council of the
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Kingdom Of Italy
The KINGDOM OF ITALY (Italian : Regno d'Italia) was a state which
existed from
18611861 , when King
Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia was
proclaimed King of
ItalyItaly , until
19461946 , when a constitutional
referendum led civil discontent to abandon the monarchy and form the
Italian Republic . The state was founded as a result of the
unification of
ItalyItaly under the influence of the
Kingdom of Sardinia ,
which can be considered its legal predecessor state.
ItalyItaly declared war on Austria in alliance with Prussia in 1866 and
received the region of
VenetoVeneto following their victory. Italian troops
entered
RomeRome in 1870, ending more than one thousand years of Papal
temporal power
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Soviet Union
The SOVIET UNION (Russian : Сове́тский Сою́з, tr.
Sovétsky Soyúz, IPA: ( listen )), officially the UNION OF SOVIET
SOCIALIST REPUBLICS (Russian : Сою́з Сове́тских
Социалисти́ческих Респу́блик, tr. Soyúz
Sovétskikh Sotsialistícheskikh Respúblik, IPA: ( listen )),
abbreviated as the USSR (Russian : СССР, tr. SSSR), was a
socialist state in
EurasiaEurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991. Nominally a
union of multiple national Soviet republics , its government and
economy were highly centralized . The country was a one-party state ,
governed by the Communist Party with
MoscowMoscow as its capital in its
largest republic, the
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic .
The Russian nation had constitutionally equal status among the many
nations of the union but exerted de facto dominance in various
respects
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